Soka Performing Arts Center Presents Secret Agent 23 Skidoo

November 19, 2019
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo performing on stage with kids

(Aliso Viejo, CA, November 19, 2019) – Bring the family and join the dance party at Soka Performing Arts Center on Sunday, January 26, 2020 at 3pm with Secret Agent 23 Skidoo! The Grammy Award-winning, internationally touring, purple velvet tuxedo-wearing, family-funk phenomenon, combines the positive, primal power of hip hop with the surreal storytelling of science fiction, celebrates individuality and imagination. When the funky beat and the bass groove drop, even the shyest kids get in on the action!

About Secret Agent 23 Skidoo
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo has concocted a potent potion that wows family crowds across the planet. The ingredients of his magic spells include reverence for the boundless mind-states of young children, re­spect for the culture of hip hop, funk and soul music, and a deep belief in the power of the imag­ination to change the world in positive ways. If you can imagine a band with Jim Henson on guitar, Shel Silverstein on bass and PIXAR as the lead vo­calist, you’ve pretty much got it. And if George Clinton and Q Tip stopped by the party, that might clarify things even more. If Dr. Seuss and Dr. Dre had a baby, it would be the music of Secret Agent 23 Skidoo.

In 2007, Skidoo had already spent over a decade touring the nation with various live band/hip hop groups as a rapper and producer. He’d opened up for MOS DEF, RUN DMC, P-Funk All Stars and The Sun Ra Ark­estra. And best of all, he’d helped bring a beautiful baby girl, Saki, into the world. Taking a break from the road, Skidoo taught little Saki (aka MC Fireworks) how to rap, and together they made the world’s first album of family hip hop. It caught on quick, and they soon had a #1 hit on Siri­usXM’s family channel, which started planting seeds across the nation and beyond.

In the next decade, they played Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits, and the Smithsonian. They flew to Canada for the Winnipeg Folk Festival, and to India for the Buddy Daddy Family Festival. They got glowing reviews in TimeUSA TodayPeople, and racked up a total of ten #1 hits on SiriusXM, and ended up on NPR’s All Things Considered twice. Their music videos are currently playing on NBC’s kids’ show “Sprout House.” And in 2014, they got nominated for a Grammy, and in 2017, they won the Grammy for “Best Children’s Recording.”

As well as releasing six full-length albums, two books, one record, a line of hot sauce, and an E.P. that combines the entire Asheville Symphony with beats and rhymes, 23 Skidoo has written and produced the music for the U.S. Library’s Summer Reading Program for six years running. In the decade of dancing down this crazy path, Secret Agent 23 Skidoo has evolved a sound and style that never dumbs down the music or underestimates the audience. With funk and beats as real as bands that play at midnight, and with lyrics that aren’t afraid to employ a larger vocabulary than what is currently heard on mainstream radio for adults, Skidoo fashions a world intended for the whole family. The universal constants that we all deal with, such as love, struggle, dreams, fear and learning to become our­selves, are the soul of these musical adventures that bounce, fly and slide smoothly through landscapes of wild imagination.

Tickets are $5-$15 and are available online at performingarts.soka.edu, at the Box Office at 1 University Drive in Aliso Viejo or by calling (949) 480-4ART (4287).

About Soka Performing Arts Center
Now is in its ninth season of presenting the best of live performances on its extraordinary stage, Soka Performing Arts Center, located on the campus of Soka University of America in Aliso Viejo, California, is under the new leadership of General Manager Renee Bodie. The 1,000-seat concert hall features world-class acoustics designed by Yasuhisa Toyota, acoustic designer of noted performance venues like Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and Suntory Hall in Tokyo.

 Designed to truly reflect the university’s commitment to sustainability, the concert hall and adjacent Maathai Hall (featuring a black box theatre and dance studio) have been built to Gold LEED standards and feature vegetated green roofs. Photo voltaic cells on the Soka Performing Arts Center roof generate approximately 15% of the facility’s electrical needs.   

Soka University of America is a private, non-profit, four-year liberal arts college and graduate program. The university is open to top students of all nationalities and beliefs and was founded upon the Buddhist principles of peace, human rights, and the sanctity of life. For more information, please visit soka.edu.

SECRET AGENT 23 SKIDOO
Sunday, January 26 at 3PM

Event URL:          http://bit.ly/2J9zdOl

TICKETS              $5 for children 12 years and younger; $15 for adults
In Person:            Soka Performing Arts Center Box Office, 1 University Drive, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656
Online:                 performingarts.soka.edu
Phone:                 949.480.4ART (4278)

 

All information is accurate at the time of printing but is subject to change.

 

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Phone:                 949.480.4ART (4278)

 

All information is accurate at the time of printing but is subject to change.

 

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